All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Jamie Stone MP and Highlands Westminster Candidate, Angus MacDonald.
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Alex Cole-Hamilton responds to the warning by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that Scotland’s “mental health must not be dealt a hammer blow,” with 40% of Scots thinking it is now harder than five years ago to access mental health services.
Alex Cole-Hamilton speaks after SNP and Green ministers voted down proposals to ditch the takeover of care services by ministers.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has condemned the government’s response to the crisis in NHS dentistry as “rotten to the root" after SNP and Green MSPs opposed proposals to address the issue this afternoon.
Jamie Stone, the MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, comments on the news that health services for women in the Highlands are to be reviewed.
Scottish Liberal Democrats will lead a debate in the Scottish Parliament today about the current crisis in NHS dentistry and will call on the government to undertake immediate reform of funding structures to boost the number of dentists and enable people to be seen.
Willie Rennie responds to this afternoon’s education statement in the Scottish Parliament by Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
